Hospitals found more revenue with AI. Insurers are coming for it.
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
8 min read
We spoke with payers, providers and employers about the impending ‘botwars’
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Making sense of healthcare deals, technology, policy, and the occasional industry curveball.
BCBSA says AI-coding is leading to increased costs
Christina Farr and Ruth Reader
10 min read
A new report says hospitals are using secondary diagnoses to bill higher
Everything you need to know about provider referral strategies that work
Christina Farr
11 min read
A veteran pharma sales rep and digital health marketer with more than a decade of experience weighs in
Four Questions with Munjal Shah
Christina Farr
10 min read
Hippocratic AI's co-founder on scope safety, who carries the liability when a clinical AI gets it wrong, and why he thinks AI grows the healthcare workforce rather than shrinking it.
The big interview with Ro Khanna on how to regulate AI
Ruth Reader
7 min read
Rep. Ro Khanna wants a new agency to vet frontier models. We asked him what that means for healthcare.
The Next Frontier In Preventive Health Care? The Dentist’s Office
Christina Farr and Jennifer Fields
10 min read
What if your next dental visit could catch more than a cavity? As healthcare systems look for new ways to expand preventive care, dental practices are emerging as an unexpected front door for screenings, referrals, and earlier detection.
If RCM is such a killer use case for AI, why aren't there Harvey or Sierra equivalents?
Nick Perry
8 min read
Because the rules for how to submit claims correctly aren’t published, humans will still need to be in the loop.
Trudging towards interoperability
Christina Farr, Ruth Reader and Annalisa Merelli
9 min read
This week a scoop from SO and a conversation with AMA's Jennifer Goldsack
Scoop: interoperability final rule drops info blocking fixes
Ruth Reader
5 min read
HTI-5 rolls back its planned regulatory roll back
More than a third of consumers use AI and social media for health info, survey says
Ruth Reader
4 min read
The survey comes alongside a new standard for predictive health AI
Doctors get into the ring about AI’s potential in healthcare
Christina Farr and Annalisa Merelli
10 min read
Plus: the Plushcare acquisition nobody announced, and McKesson breach
Everything I know about the behavioral health market in 2026
Christina Farr
18 min read
After $12B+ in investment and a brutal reset, behavioral health is the biggest category in digital health services — and every scaled player is now asking the same question: how do I get bigger without breaking the core business?